2-55 Consider the following information about March 1992 nonfarm employment (in thousands of workers) in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas 1,639.0 235.5 Nebraska Nevada 730.6 638.4 1,510.0 New Hampshire 466.5 951.1 New Jersey 3,390.7 California 12,324.3 New Mexico 583.3 Colorado 1,552.7 New York 7,666.4 Connecticut 1,510.6 North Carolina 3,068.3 Delaware 335.2 North Dakota 271.0 District of Columbia 667.0 Ohio 4,709.9 Florida 5,322.8 Oklahoma 1,196.9 Georgia 2,927.1 Oregon 1,245.6 Hawaii 546.3 Pennsylvania 4,992.1 Idaho 400.4 Rhode Island 413.2 Illinois 5,146.2 South Carolina 1,494.6 Indiana 2,496.3 South Dakota 295.6 Iowa 1,229.2 Tennessee 2,178.6 Kansas 1,108.3 Texas 7,209.7 Kentucky 1,474.8 Utah 752.2 Louisiana 1,617.5 Vermont 244.8 Maine 500.0 Virginia 2,792.4 Maryland 2,037.3 Washington 2,165.8 Massachusetts 2,751.6 West Virginia 622.1 Michigan 3,828.9 Wisconsin 2,272.1 Minnesota 2,117.1 Wyoming 198.0 Mississippi 940.9 Puerto Rico 842.4 Missouri 2,275.9 Virgin Islands 42.4 Montana 299.3 Source: Sharon R. Cohany, Employment Data," "Monthly Labor Review 115(6), (June 1992): 80-82. 64 Statistics for Management (a) Arrange the data into 10 equal-width, mutually exclusive classes. (b) Determine the frequency and relative frequency within each class. (c) Are these data discrete or continuous? (d) Construct a "less-than" cumulative frequency distribution and ogive for the relative frequency distribution in part (b). (e) Based on the ogive constructed in part (d), what proportion of states have nonfarm employment greater than 3 million?